Severe winters with -50 degrees and dark all day all the way to 90 degree summer days with all night daylight...it is a place of contrast. It can be the loneliest place in the world and it can be the place where you know so many people you can't remember all their names! But this state, this city it is part me. My name is written in the land. It is my land.
God is here in this land. He beckons and tries and calls in this place. People come here and end up seeking Him and often desperate for Him. In this place, you find you need Him. You need Him just to do life.
From keeping winter gear in your car at all times, to plugging in your car engine below zero temps, to having to rush right home from the store before your produce freezes in the car.
~ Avoiding frostbite while you are outdoors;
~stopping at all unattended accidents because people can die of hypothermia without even being injured;
~ dealing with the lack of daylight in winter and how it affects your moods and the moods around you ~Driving in ice, snow, at such a wide variance of temps, and coping with town newcomers who don't know how to drive here
~ Getting your winter tires on in October and keeping antifreeze in your gas tank when it drops below zero
Yea, I do life here and I like the challenge but here is also a land of broken hearted rejects of society. Mixed in are the Alaskan Native People. Someone has to bring joy and hope to this land and I think I am one of those someones. I know I am. I have prayed over this land for 34 years, pondered the prophecies about Alaska, and listened to those who have gone before.
There is a grand plan for this place in God's scheme of things, and I for one want to be a player! Oh Alaska... you have captured me, I have struggled and yielded many times..but mostly it always comes back to one thing. I love this land and its people and I always will. 
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